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Learners’ errors in secondary algebra: insights from tracking a cohort from Grade 9 to Grade 11 on a diagnostic algebra test (2016)
Journal Article
Pournara, C., Hodgen, J., Sanders, Y., & Adler, J. (2016). Learners’ errors in secondary algebra: insights from tracking a cohort from Grade 9 to Grade 11 on a diagnostic algebra test. Pythagoras, 37(1), https://doi.org/10.4102/pythagoras.v37i1.334

It is well known that learner performance in mathematics in South Africa is poor. However, less is known about what learners actually do and the extent to which this changes as they move through secondary school mathematics. In this study a cohort of... Read More about Learners’ errors in secondary algebra: insights from tracking a cohort from Grade 9 to Grade 11 on a diagnostic algebra test.

Psychological morbidity and health related quality of life after injury: multicentre cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Kellezi, B., Coupland, C., Maula, A., Beckett, K., Morriss, R. K., …Christie, N. (2017). Psychological morbidity and health related quality of life after injury: multicentre cohort study. Quality of Life Research, 26(5), 1233-1250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-016-1439-7

Purpose: To demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity one month post-injury on subsequent post-injury quality of life (HRQoL) in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. Method... Read More about Psychological morbidity and health related quality of life after injury: multicentre cohort study.

Revealing the community within: valuing the role of local community structures within evidence-based school intervention programmes (2016)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., & Knight, R. (2016). Revealing the community within: valuing the role of local community structures within evidence-based school intervention programmes. Urban Review, 8(5), 647-667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-016-0372-y

Schools and the families they serve are sometimes perceived as deficient and in need of fixing. One response has been the implementation of evidence-based family intervention programmes, which may be highly regulated and prescriptive as a condition o... Read More about Revealing the community within: valuing the role of local community structures within evidence-based school intervention programmes.

Think aloud: using cognitive interviewing to validate the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics (2016)
Journal Article
Pepper, D., Hodgen, J., Lamesoo, K., Kõiv, P., & Tolboom, J. (in press). Think aloud: using cognitive interviewing to validate the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2016.1238891

Cognitive interviewing (CI) provides a method of systematically collecting validity evidence of response processes for questionnaire items. CI involves a range of techniques for prompting individuals to verbalise their responses to items. One such te... Read More about Think aloud: using cognitive interviewing to validate the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics.

Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs (2016)
Book Chapter
Crook, K., & Crook, C. (2016). Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs. In A. Marcus-Quinn, & T. Hourigan (Eds.), Handbook on digital learning for K-12 schools. Springer Science+Business Media

This paper explores recent encouragement to cultivate in students a sensitivity towards the ‘multi-modal’ nature of human communication. We consider what this means for educational practice and, in particular, how such an imperative might be addresse... Read More about Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs.

Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory (2016)
Journal Article
Hook, L., & Murphy, D. (2016). Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 15(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2016.1219674

Whether conditions of worth theory can explain complex forms of human psychological distress, such as those emanating from early experiences of abuse, neglect and trauma, alongside experiences of physiological events later in life is open to debate.... Read More about Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory.

Master teachers as teacher leaders: evidence from Malaysia and the Philippines (2016)
Journal Article
Bush, T., Glover, D., Ng, A. Y. M., & Romero, M. (in press). Master teachers as teacher leaders: evidence from Malaysia and the Philippines

The career paths of teachers in most countries lead to talented practitioners progressively reducing their classroom work to take on leadership and management responsibilities culminating in headship. Some education systems seek to keep good teachers... Read More about Master teachers as teacher leaders: evidence from Malaysia and the Philippines.

Internationalizing higher education: from grand plans to evolving responses (2016)
Journal Article
Mertkan, S., Gilanlioglu, I., & McGrath, S. (in press). Internationalizing higher education: from grand plans to evolving responses. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 29(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-10-2015-0185

Purpose – This paper explores the complexity of developing into an international institution from the perspective of higher education leaders through the case study of one institution engaged in institutional transformation. Design/Methodology/App... Read More about Internationalizing higher education: from grand plans to evolving responses.

Instructional leadership in Greek and English outstanding schools (2016)
Journal Article
Kaparou, M., & Bush, T. (2016). Instructional leadership in Greek and English outstanding schools. International Journal of Educational Management, 30(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-03-2015-0025

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine instructional leadership (IL) in outstanding secondary schools within a centralised (Greece) and a partially decentralised (England) education context. Design/methodology/approach – Since the pur... Read More about Instructional leadership in Greek and English outstanding schools.

Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England (2016)
Journal Article
Greany, T., & Waterhouse, J. (2016). Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England. International Journal of Educational Management, 30(7), 1188-1206. doi:10.1108/ijem-11-2015-0148

Purpose – This paper describes and analyses the development of school autonomy, school leadership and curriculum innovation in England over the past forty years. It provides a baseline picture for the wider international study on school autonomy and... Read More about Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England.

Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects (2016)
Journal Article
Ashwin, P., Abbas, A., & McLean, M. (2016). Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects. British Educational Research Journal, 42(6), 962-977. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3244

© 2016 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students’ undergraduate experiences ei... Read More about Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects.

The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism (2016)
Journal Article
Holford, J. (2016). The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism. International Review of Education, 62(5), 541-561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9591-4

‘‘Sustainability’’ has a captivating but disingenuous simplicity: its meanings are complex, and have political and policy significance. Exploring the application of the term to adult education, this paper argues that a particular discourse of ‘‘susta... Read More about The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism.

Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures (2016)
Journal Article
Crook, C., & Bligh, B. (2016). Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.09.001

Common visions of online education entail radically re-configuring the experience of learning: a technological displacement from the spatial order of classrooms into the more diffuse arena of digital networks. One assumption seems to be that the very... Read More about Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures.

Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference) (2016)
Journal Article
Evans, S., & Ayalon, M. (2016). Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference)

This paper introduces the use of pre-designed student responses to unstructured mathematics problems as a possible resource for teachers to develop their capacity of acting contingently in the mathematics classroom in a productive way, whilst teachin... Read More about Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference).

Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism (2016)
Journal Article
Emerson, A., & Dearden, J. (2017). Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism. British Journal of Special Education, 44(1), 8-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12137

This longitudinal case study of 10 year old girl with autism and severe communication impairment measures the impact of the MORE (Means, Opportunities, Reasons and Expectations) approach to enhancing engagement and communication proposed by Emerson a... Read More about Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism.

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (in press). Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12373

In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Muhr, T. (2016). South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’. In S. L. Robertson, K. Olds, R. Dale, & Q. A. Dang (Eds.), Global Regionalisms and Higher Education: Projects, Processes, Politics. Edward Elgar

This chapter approaches the changing geometries of Latin America–Caribbean regionalisms through the lens of South-South cooperation and the role of university education in the construction of a Brazil–Venezuela cross-border sub-region termed ‘Special... Read More about South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’.

The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2016). The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability. International Review of Education, 62(5), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9588-z

The idea of “sustainability” as a core value has slowly permeated policy and practice at governmental and institutional levels, in public and private policy. However, at times when social and economic crises have revealed the fragility of existing in... Read More about The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability.